English YEAR 7 ENGLISH REFLECTIONS IN ENGLISH THIS YEAR...
I have been challenged by staying focused for the whole lesson and giving my best for every piece I do. – Matthew Issell I have learned how to plan and present a persuasive piece and how to make a good debate. – Liam Bindokas I have learned about horror, grammar, how to do an essay and many more things. I enjoyed writing an essay and I learned a lot of stuff and how to do it. I also liked making our ‘Thai-riffic!’ comics as I loved drawing and writing it. – Ethan Kiebert I have improved on my story writing. – Billy Cattanach I have developed my vocab and my spelling. I have also developed my comprehension in ‘Pankration’ and ‘Thai-riffic!’. – Oliver Wiltshire I have been challenged by writing my first essay. It was very challenging learning how to use TEEL for each paragraph.This was new for me because I had never been taught it before. Picking a topic for each paragraph was also challenging. – Will Gray I have enjoyed reviewing books. This was really fun and I learned a lot from it. – Julien Gaite I have developed confidence in my reading. I have also created my first essay on ‘Pankration’, our English novel. One of the fun times in English was doing our writing folio where we got to do all different kinds of creative writing. – Lachlan Beattie I have appreciated having such a good teacher and having the chance to learn how to write an essay and a writing folio. – Brodie Hynam I have developed my skills in correcting my work. I can still improve, but now I make less mistakes which is better than what I did in Grade 6.This is a bit improvement considering how many grammar mistakes I used to make. – Charles Darcy I have enjoyed the reading of the books ‘Pankration’ and ‘Thairiffic!’. I have also enjoyed the essays. – Jesse Sorgiovanni I have created many different writing pieces, such as essays, stories, persuasive writing, and many more. – George Plumridge I have enjoyed writing about horror and other stories. I also enjoyed reading the books ‘Pankration’ and ‘Thai-riffic!’, and learning about the genres of the books. – Mathew Hartney I have improved on my spelling and punctuation, and my narrative writing. – Joel Martyn I have learned how to spell bigger words that I can use more often. – Matthew Boardman I have improved on my persuasive writing with more persuasive words. I’ve also improved on my spelling and story writing. – Charlie Cannon I have learned how to write a persuasive text and have been a part of a debating team. I have also improving my writing skills. – Tom Hockley Samon I have improved on reading and also writing. I think I am getting better every lesson. – Jacob Devlin I have developed the skills to write an essay and produce long and sufficient pieces of work. – Grady Martin I have developed better writing skills and better reading skills. – Henry Stephensen I have enjoyed debating. Horror has also been good. I also enjoyed making the documentary about our favourite literature. – Zachary Muir I have improved on my hand writing. I also read ‘Pankration’ and ‘Thai-riffic!’ – Mitchell Stosic I have enjoyed all the stories I have written and the novel ‘Pankration’ that I read; it was really fun. – Max Dementiev I have appreciated reading two works and taking an in depth look at both novels. – Oliver Koerntjes
YEAR 8 PURSUASIVE PIECES
Big Bad Banned Games! To the editor, The Community of St Joseph’s College has been divided for a long time now on the issue of students downloading games to their laptops. It is my personal belief along with many others that students should not be allowed to have downloaded games to their laptops. If games were allowed on the school laptop then I strongly believe that students (including myself) would find the temptation of games on our laptops too hard to resist. I know from personal experience, that students tend to play games on the internet during class time. The St Joseph’s I.T department does it’s best to block games from the internet but they have no control over games downloaded at home from the internet or off the games store. To elaborate, I would also like to say that games can have a negative effect on our learning. There is scientific evidence that games make us tire easily and can cause us to disengage from the real world. If students are allowed to play games downloaded and filled with viruses, it will have a negative effect on our education. For this reason I would encourage schools to continue, or start a NO GAMES POLICY. Secondly some games chosen could possibly be violent or inappropriate.This is not on! The school computer should be used for school purposes and school purposes only. Studies have shown that violent games encourage violence. Why would a Catholic school run the risk of producing violent adults? To extend my point some parents will have banned these games at home not knowing their children are playing these games on their school computer. Parents need to know what their son/daughter is playing on their school computer. All of this could happen if games are allowed on schools computer. Whilst some people may argue that games are a useful learning tool all the time. I do not believe that they fully understand what we are discussing. The games that do advance our learning like Hot maths, Language Perfect etc. are unblocked and ready for use. But the downloaded games do harm our learning. They distract us and stop us from achieving our full potential. The UN Youth Evatt Competition people that argue we should for public speaking allow games on our laptop don’t really know what they are talking about. I would like to conclude by saying that students should accept St Joseph’s policy on banning games and all schools should continue to ban downloading games. Games are banned for a reason, they harm our learning. When your parents are paying for your schooling we must take this opportunity for learning. William Ryan, Newtown, Victoria SAFER CYCLISTS ON OUR STREETS Currently there is much debate concerning the issue of whether or not bike paths should be built in and around Geelong.
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